If you play back those same files using your computer's sound card or some other method besides the Transporter, do they crackle? If you take the DAC out of the chain, does that change anything?
You could also experiment with transcoding the files to another format and checking whether that has any effect. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82558 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles